#chicagomurders

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This week we take one last trip back in time to discuss the unsolved Tylenol murders in Chicago!

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⁠Maurine Dallas Watkins is probably the most financially successful Chicago Tribune reporter you’ve never heard of. She died 50 years ago this weekend, but almost no one noticed. The Tribune failed to run her obituary. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ She was hired by the Tribune in 1924 and reported on women accused of murder in Cook County. Watkins used the plot twists of the women’s trials to write the play "Chicago," which today is a $2 billion entertainment franchise featuring A-list celebrities, a hit, Tony Award-winning Broadway musical and an Oscar-winning movie. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ We began researching Watkins in 2017 after the discovery of a box of glass negatives of the women featured in her play. VintageTribune, along with Tribune journalist Kori Rumore, worked to create a new book: “He Had It Coming: Four Murderous Women and the Reporter Who Immortalized Their Stories.” We're excited to announce it will be released on Nov. 19, 2019. Preorders are available at chicagotribune.com/murder.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ And finally, to read Watkins' overdue obituary, click the link in our bio. #MaurineWatkins #HeHadItComing #chicago #VelmaKelly #RoxieHart #chicagomurder @agatepublishing⁠ ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ https://ift.tt/2KDAPRk

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⁠Maurine Dallas Watkins is probably the most financially successful Chicago Tribune reporter you’ve never heard of. She died 50 years ago this weekend, but almost no one noticed. The Tribune failed to run her obituary. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ She was hired by the Tribune in 1924 and reported on women accused of murder in Cook County. Watkins used the plot twists of the women’s trials to write the play "Chicago," which today is a $2 billion entertainment franchise featuring A-list celebrities, a hit, Tony Award-winning Broadway musical and an Oscar-winning movie. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ We began researching Watkins in 2017 after the discovery of a box of glass negatives of the women featured in her play. VintageTribune, along with Tribune journalist Kori Rumore, worked to create a new book: “He Had It Coming: Four Murderous Women and the Reporter Who Immortalized Their Stories.” We're excited to announce it will be released on Nov. 19, 2019. Preorders are available at chicagotribune.com/murder.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ And finally, to read Watkins' overdue obituary, click the link in our bio. #MaurineWatkins #HeHadItComing #chicago #VelmaKelly #RoxieHart #chicagomurder @agatepublishing⁠ ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ https://ift.tt/2KDAPRk

[ibtimesuk]

Trump threatens to send feds into Chicago unless it fixes 'carnage'

City's homicide rate increased to highest in decades in 2016. http://dlvr.it/NByVyd

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October 2, 2018

Two recent, and apparently related, murders have my Chicago neighborhood of Rogers Park in mourning and on edge. At around 10:30 am on Sunday, an older resident named Douglass Watts was shot at point blank range while walking his dogs near his apartment building. On Monday evening, a young man, Eliyahu Moscowitz, was also shot at point blank range, in the nearby lakefront park where he was a well known and well liked participant in a local Pokemon Go group. Police have determined that the same gun was used in the killings of both men.

Gathering on Tuesday evening in the park near the spot of Eliyahu’s murder, his friends, his Pokemon Go teammates, and Rogers Park community members (such as myself) lit candles and came together to remember the victims, and express their grief, shock and anger over these two brutal acts of violence.

As of this writing on Wednesday morning, the Chicago police have released a photo of a suspect, taken by a surveillance camera near Douglass Watts’ residence on Sherwin Avenue. Unfortunately the face of the suspect cannot be discerned in the image.

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Rose Neary was found strangled and hammered to death in her first floor apartment in the 3200 block of Franklin Boulevard in Chicago on June 2, 1939 — 80-years ago this week. Neary was dressed for church, umbrella on her wrist, when she was found by friends laying face down on her rug. A hand written phone number of a woman friend, one Neary knew by heart, was clutched in her left hand. A length of cord, snipped from her kitchen radio, was found around her neck. Her murder was never solved.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Neary was a known do-gooder and churchgoer who liked to help people by giving loans to needy friends. She had a sweetheart named Edward Donovan, 38, a streetcar operator and her occasional chauffeur. Unknown to Neary, Donovan was married with two children. He also owed Neary over $2,000. Police questioned Donovan and several other people that she had given money to, but no one was ever convicted of the crime. Follow the link in our bio for more photos from the crime. #chicagomurders #chicagocrime #unsolvedmurder #roseneary⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ http://bit.ly/2Z7UONl

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Rose Neary was found strangled and hammered to death in her first floor apartment in the 3200 block of Franklin Boulevard in Chicago on June 2, 1939 — 80-years ago this week. Neary was dressed for church, umbrella on her wrist, when she was found by friends laying face down on her rug. A hand written phone number of a woman friend, one Neary knew by heart, was clutched in her left hand. A length of cord, snipped from her kitchen radio, was found around her neck. Her murder was never solved.⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Neary was a known do-gooder and churchgoer who liked to help people by giving loans to needy friends. She had a sweetheart named Edward Donovan, 38, a streetcar operator and her occasional chauffeur. Unknown to Neary, Donovan was married with two children. He also owed Neary over $2,000. Police questioned Donovan and several other people that she had given money to, but no one was ever convicted of the crime. Follow the link in our bio for more photos from the crime. #chicagomurders #chicagocrime #unsolvedmurder #roseneary⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ http://bit.ly/2Z7UONl

[f-thebabyboomers]

Chicago Murders with in the last week.

http://homicides.suntimes.com/